Hi Everyone,

Timeline -
I completed my OAs on Feb 5th and received the interview slot booking survey on Feb 8th. I booked interview for March 5th.

Interview -
Round 1 - Design Unix Find command - https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/609070/Amazon-OOD-Design-Unix-File-Search-API
LP - Tell me about time when you did something outside your comfort zone or something different than regular work.

Round 2 - Isomorphic Strings
LP - Same as 1, when you didnt have enough time to explore all options because of time crunch what you did.

Round 3 - Design Auto complete - https://leetcode.com/problems/design-search-autocomplete-system/
LP - There were around 4/5 LP question here. All mentioned in https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/437082/amazon-behavioral-questions-leadership-principles-lp/873974

Experience -

1. Initial 20 minutes they will ask you LP questions only. Its not like they will ask just one or two questions on LP.

2. Next 20 minutes will be dedicated to coding. Links to coding platform will be shared. They wont be able to compile the code, but will see the way you are coding. One thing common in all rounds were they wanted me to write the code in OOD format. It was not like i just wrote the method and its done. They wanted me to write the object creation, function calls etc. I was not done with full implementation in round 1 and round 3, they stopped me like 2 minutes before 20 minutes are completed and asked me to write the OOD format for whole code.

   NOTE - I was not able to complete full implementation but i explained the approach very well, step by step. Its okay to go back and forth sometimes, just tell them i am thinking out loud, i am making connections to find optimal way :)

   3 Last five minutes were just if i have any questions for them.

Tips -

1. I didnt byheart any code for any question, just understand the appraoch, visualize how you can solve this problem. Never byheart the code.
2. Dont be scared to go outside amazon tagged questions. There are chances that they may ask you from anywhere. But if you are strong on your skills you will be able to come up with solution.
3. I was stuck while coding, they gave me hints and i didnt let hints go in the air. Keep your mind open, listen to hint and work on the hint they gave you. Dont ignore hints and dont get confused with hints.
4. Mostly when you get already seen question in interview, you will start thinking about the solution rather than creating it on the spot using your skills. At that time our mind will be busy in searching for solution rather than listening to what interviewer is saying and you mess up.

Resources -

1. https://leetcode.com/discuss/general-discussion/460599/blind-75-leetcode-questions - This is not amazon tagged or anything. But this really helps to understand different approaches to different DS.
2. Amazon card - Premium
3. Top 50 Amazon questions in LC Premium
4. Behaviour - Prepared 12 stories in STAR format and mapped to questions in https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/437082/amazon-behavioral-questions-leadership-principles-lp/873974

It does depend upon interviewer on what questions they want to ask and how they want to take interview like in my round1 interviewer was 10 minutes late so he started directly with coding question and took just 5 minutes for LP. Next two rounds were like starting 20 minutes LP, next 20 coding and last 5 minutes for questions.

Status - Under Review. Will Update once i get any information on my application status.
Hope this helps.